1889 Calendar
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1889 Historical Event(s)
January 15, 1889
– The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is originally incorporated in Atlanta.
January 22, 1889
– Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
January 30, 1889
– Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in Mayerling.
February 9, 1889
– President Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.
February 22, 1889
– President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
May 14, 1889
– The children’s charity National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is launched in London.
June 3, 1889
– The transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway is completed.
July 8, 1889
– The first issue of the Wall Street Journal is published.
November 8, 1889
– Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
November 14, 1889
– Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in seventy-two days.
Who Were Born On 1889?
January 12, 1889
– Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad, 2nd Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and 2nd successor to Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (d. 1965)
January 30, 1889
– Jaishankar Prasad, Indian poet and dramatist (d. 1937)
February 5, 1889
– Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (d. 1962)
February 23, 1889
– Musidora, French actress and director (d. 1957)
April 18, 1889
– Jessie Street, Australian suffragette, feminist, and human rights activist (d. 1970)
May 2, 1889
– Ki Hajar Dewantara, Indonesian education pioneer and national hero (d. 1959)
June 21, 1889
– Ralph Craig, American athlete (d. 1972)
July 9, 1889
– Leo Dandurand, American-born Canadian hockey executive (d. 1964)
October 10, 1889
– Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter, portraitist and art forger (d. 1947)
December 25, 1889
– Lila Bell Wallace, American magazine publisher (Reader’s Digest) (d. 1984)